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Article by Kenneth Headlam-Morley on the miners’ strike and pit conditions in Durham, 1926-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/126
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From the Series:
Includes: JWHM's early work as a student, lecturer, classicist and historian; numerous articles and book reviews; several works on Bismarck and 19th century Germany; JWHM's writing on South Africa in association with 1st Lord Loch; entries for the Encyclopaedia Britannica; articles on Germany in the First World War and the Versailles Treaty; material on the posthumous publication of JWHM's "Studies in Diplomatic History"; some articles by Kenneth Headlam-Morley, mainly relating to the Saar...
Dates:
1926-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Public and political: newspapers relating to the General Strike., May 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/149
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From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
May 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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General papers, 1984-09 - 1984-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 15/2/21
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Cuttings and correspondence, with correspondents including: James Over, Chief Constable of Gwent, on policing of the strike; James Mortimer, General Secretary of the Labour Party, on an accusation from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) that NK used offensive language about Arthur Scargill [President of the NUM] in the Face the Press programme.
Dates:
1984-09 - 1984-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General papers, 1984-09 - 1984-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 15/2/20
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Includes: annotated draft National Executive Committee statement for Conference, "A Future for British Coal"; synopsis of events and statements, Apr-June 1984, from the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, particularly relating to coal supplies for Llanwern Steelworks, Gwent [Wales]; summary and extracts of major speeches and statements by NK; survey of a group of working miners by the Aims of Industry campaign against revolutionary violence; extract from a World at One interview by NK, Oct...
Dates:
1984-09 - 1984-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Symons, Julian Gustave (the General Strike), 1956-1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Windham Baldwin/8/11/1-10
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Includes letters to AWB from Viscount Davidson, Sir G. S. Fry and Sir H. J. Wilson
Dates:
1956-1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bevin's account of the General Strike presented at the Area Secretaries' conference held to discuss the miners' lock-out, 1926-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BEVN II 7/7
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From the Fonds:
The Papers consist of political papers, correspondence, speeches and press cuttings, mainly relating to Trade Unions, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and the Foreign Office.
Dates:
1926-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence, 2006-06 - 2006-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 1/10/9
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Correspondents include: [Alexander] Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery; Ann Clywd; Ian McCartney, Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs, on securing a UN Security Council Resolution on Burma [Myanmar]; John Bercow, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma; Christine McCafferty; Peter Mortimore; Kelvin Hopkins on the Euro Rail Freight Route; Liam Byrne, Minister of State, Home Office; Baroness Quin.
Also includes: invitations to...
Dates:
2006-06 - 2006-08
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed under data protection as the file contains some personal information on living individuals.
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General files on political issues, 1924-04 - 1948-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/11
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Includes: Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the budget (April 1924 and May 1925), general progress from November 1924 to spring 1925, unemployment, general progress from November 1924 to August 1925, the coal dispute, General Strike and the Unemployment Insurance Act; copy of Hansard on debates over the frontiers of Iraq, naval commitments to the League of Nations, and a vote of censure against the Government; report and notes on the appointment of ex-servicemen to the civil...
Dates:
1924-04 - 1948-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes by Hoare, 'The General Strike' (typescript), c.1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Templewood/V/File 6/18
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From the Sub-Series:
Correspondence, papers, articles and notes concerning the General Strike, May 1926.
Dates:
c.1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes by Hoare, 'The General Strike' (typescript), c.1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Templewood/V/File 6/21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Correspondence, papers, articles and notes concerning the General Strike, May 1926.
Dates:
c.1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cuttings, pamphlets and notes regarding coal and the General Strike., 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 1/3
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From the Sub-Series:
Material relating to Noel-Baker's time as Labour Member of Parliament for Coventry.
Dates:
1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General papers, 1984-03 - 1984-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 15/2/9
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Includes: briefing for and notes of a meeting between the National Executive Committee and representatives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Dec 1984; papers from a meeting of NK’s constituency party, Nov 1984; copies of letters from NK to Arthur Scargill [President of the NUM] and Peter Heathfield, General Secretary of the NUM, on subjects including public meetings and rallies to put the miners’ case, and allegations of links between Labour and Libya; transcript of a meeting...
Dates:
1984-03 - 1984-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Presentation to Brigadier Andrew Hoon, Chief Executive of Military Survey, of facsimile of 'The General Strike map of 1926', 1995
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Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/CCSA.IM_462_7
Scope and Contents
No further details.
Dates:
1995
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
The Charles Close Society Archives is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. Appointments for access should be made in advance by contacting the Head of the Map Department, Anne Taylor (maps@lib.cam.ac.uk). Further contact details and Map Room opening hours can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/map-department-contact-details. Anyone wishing to use the collection must first acquire a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket, see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/your-library-membership Members of the Charles Close Society wishing to consult the Charles Close Society Archives will not be charged for a ticket on production of their current CCS membership card and providing that they have first contacted Anne Taylor who will support their application.
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General papers, 1984-01 - 1985-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 15/2/42
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Papers and correspondence, with correspondents including: Ian MacGregor, Chairman of the National Coal Board (NCB); Kevin Barron on the actions of police at Maltby Colliery [Yorkshire], September 1984; [Melvin] Barry Hines on his film Threads, on nuclear war; John Morris, Shadow Attorney-General on the sequestration of union funds. Also includes: text of a speech by NK given in Stoke [Staffordshire]; note from Charles Clarke [head of NK’s office] describing a call from Arthur Scargill...
Dates:
1984-01 - 1985-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence, 1965-01 - 1965-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/44
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Correspondents include: Sir Peter Agnew, enclosing a note on subjects which Sheikh Isa of Bahrein wanted to raise with the Government; Jeffrey Archer; Anthony Barber; Roland Beamont on the scrapping of the TSR-2 strike and reconnaissance aircraft; [Harold] Montgomery Belgion; Max Beloff, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford; John Biggs-Davison, inviting JA to join the Watching Committee; Michael Wolff, Editor of Crossbow (the Bow Group magazine);...
Dates:
1965-01 - 1965-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General correspondence, 1984-07 - 1984-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/125
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Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group; [Jeremy] Paddy Ashdown on his bill to amend the Visiting Forces Act, on immunity for visiting servicemen; Robert Banks; Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including the Antarctic Treaty (3); Mark Bonham Carter, Joint Chairman, Anglo-Polish Round Table Conference, on action being taken against the Polish Committee for Social Self-defence (KOR) (2); Nicholas Ridley, Secretary of State for...
Dates:
1984-07 - 1984-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General Election 1966: correspondence, 1966-01 - 1966-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 6/40
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Includes questions from constituents, some general constituency correspondence, administrative correspondence, and letters and telegrams of good wishes, with correspondents including: John Biggs-Davison; Frederick Burden; Air Vice-Marshal Joseph Cox (2); [Leonard] Robert Carr on personal attacks against JA over the cancellation of BOAC's order for the VC.10 airliner; Lieutenant-General Sir [William] Alexander Drummond; Paul Emrys-Evans; General Sir Richard Gale, Chairman of the Army League;...
Dates:
1966-01 - 1966-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General correspondence, 1984-12 - 1985-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 1/3/12
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Correspondents include: David Alton; Gavin Laird, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW) enclosing a statement on the AUEW’s loyalty to the Trades Union Congress; Peter Archer [chief Northern Ireland spokesman] enclosing a memorandum in business in Parliament relating to Northern Ireland and a letter from [Henry] Chapman Pincher on allegations by Peter Wright about KGB penetration of the security services (2); Ernest Armstrong; Joseph Ashton; Sir Richard...
Dates:
1984-12 - 1985-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence, 1955-12 - 1956-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/21
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Correspondents include: John Selwyn-Lloyd, Foreign Secretary, on the alleged persecution of Albanian refugees in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and a claim by Prince Fazil against the Egyptian Government (4); 2nd Lord Altrincham [earlier John Grigg], Editor of the National and English Review, on reform of the House of Lords (3); Jacques Bardoux; [Ian] Michael Peacock, Producer, BBC Television Talks Department;...
Dates:
1955-12 - 1956-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General personal letters to GJ, 1919-02 - 1928-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 8/5
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Correspondents include: [Luke] William Teeling, congratulating JA on getting into the Foreign Office; Ralph Wigram, congratulating JA on getting into the Foreign Office; Henry Hopkinson [? later 1st Lord Colyton], congratulating JA on getting into the Foreign Office; [?] Andrew Gow, Assistant Master at Eton College (3); Archibald MacLeish; Francis Urquhart ["Sligger" Urquhart, Dean of Balliol College, University of Oxford] on subjects including congratulating JA on getting into the Foreign...
Dates:
1919-02 - 1928-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence, 1966-03 - 1966-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/47
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Correspondents (many commiserating with JA on the loss of his Parliamentary seat at Preston [Lancashire]) include: Augustus Agar on the Government's policy on Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Florence Amery; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; Erik Bennett; Humphry Berkeley; Sir Cyril Black; 1st Lord Blakenham [earlier John Hare]; 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd] (3); John Boyd-Carpenter (2); Bernard Braine; Edward du Cann, Chairman of the Conservative Party; [Leonard] Robert Carr; 6th...
Dates:
1966-03 - 1966-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General correspondence, 1920-01 - 1920-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 9/15
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Letters to McKenna and Pamela McKenna from correspondents including: [?] George Barnes; [Joseph] Hilaire Belloc on subjects including his writing work and travelling in France and Belgium (7); Ernest Benn on a threatened consumers' strike against the cost of living; [William] Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate] on his engagement; Sir John Bradbury on subjects including McKenna's account of the currency note issue (3); 2nd Lord Brassey; Lord Hugh Cecil [later 1st Lord Quickswood] on a...
Dates:
1920-01 - 1920-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence, 1965-01 - 1965-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/45
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Correspondents include: William Allen; Florence Amery; Lord Shackleton, Minister of Defence for the RAF; Erik Bennett [former Air Adviser to King Hussein of Jordan] on the king's visit to Britain (5); Geoffrey Goodwin, London School of Economics; Marcel Boussac; Sir [John] Hugh Boustead; 1st Lord Boyd of Merton; John Browne [former Chief Constable, Cyprus] (2); Lord Casey [Governor-General of Australia]; William Cash; 4th Lord St Oswald [earlier Rowland Winn]; John Colville on Leo Amery's...
Dates:
1965-01 - 1965-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General correspondence, 1969-06 - 1969-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/57
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Correspondents include: Florence Amery (2); Kenneth Baker on JA's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; Sir Edward Hulton, Editor-in-Chief of the European Review (2), enclosing an article on the future of NATO and the Council of Europe; Wing Commander Erik Bennett on subjects including the withdrawal of British forces from Singapore (3); Lord Boothby on the state of the economy, particularly relating to the gold standard; Marcel Boussac (2); 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd] on a...
Dates:
1969-06 - 1969-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General correspondence, 1981-07 - 1981-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/108
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Correspondents include: Sir Antony Acland, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Air Vice-Marshal Erik Bennett [Commander, Sultan of Oman’s Air Force]; 4th Lord Bethell on his research on Albania for his book ["The Great Betrayal"]; Sir John Biggs-Davison, Chairman of the Pan Europe Club; Sir Bernard Braine; [William] John Biffen, Secretary of State for Trade, on pricing in the air transport industry; Julian Bullard, Deputy Under-Secretary of State,...
Dates:
1981-07 - 1981-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.